Saturday July 21 from Hawkesbury NS to Halifax Day 8

Our intention was to eat about a half hour out, well we were still on the main highway. We decided to take a run through the center of the province on highway 7. It is a two lane road, twisty and curvy. Saw a group of 6 C5 Vette’s going north probably for the weekend. Beautiful lakes and rivers were passed. We were still traveling south and found a town, Sherbrooke, there we found the Sherbrooke Village Inn. What a pleasant surprise. Fresh strawberry pancakes, French toast, scrambled eggs with sausage and Jerry had a special order lobster scrambled egg plate with deep fried half inch potatoes and she made me take anther meat so I could order the #1 with lobster. It was worth the asking, went back to the lady cooking the meals and thanked her, she was pleasantly surprised and said they try to take all orders.

Down along the southern seacoast, plenty of fog and rain. Just outside Dartmouth we came to a stop and heard sirens. After sitting there for a couple minutes we realized we were being held up by a parade. People with umbrellas some without and rain, did I say rain, plenty. It took at least 25 minutes for us to get going again.

To get to Halifax from Dartmouth we pay a toll of 75 cents each way. We drove through the town looking at what we will tour tomorrow. We then headed to Fairview cemetery that had 122 people from the Titanic buried their. The cemetery was well marked and in just one area. The readings on some of the gravestones where poetic and about the life of the individual. Many were not marked with a name just a body number, spooky just like the movie. We also ran into another parade, gay rights, we didn’t participate.

Back to our side of the river for dinner. We stopped for gas, 67$, seemed like a lot to me. We ate at MacAskills Restaurant. When we went their there was a rock concert going on so we had to park 5 blocks away. We had a nice view of the harbor and the tour boat coming in to take on and off passengers. Appetizers coconut shrimp, scallops wraped in bacon – Jim, Dave’s escargot. Pat and Shirleen ordered a split of lobster, accompanied by three root veggies one with a curry. The boys ordered the seafood treasure, with a piece of salmon, haddock, two scallops, two shrimp. The wine was a Grand Pre Marechal Foch (grape name), Hardy’s Shiraz Cab.

Now the rain has come and we walked back to the cars in a downpour, picked up the ladies and back to the room for the night. Tomorrow we tour Halifax. jerr